The Last of Us Part II 2020

Is it still worth playing?

Four years after The Last of Us, Ellie leaves her home in Jackson, Wyoming, for a ruined Seattle on a journey of revenge in this 2020 third person action game for the PlayStation 4. You fight hostile people, and creatures infected by a fungus, with guns, improvised weapons and stealth. Ellie can climb, crawl prone and break windows to reach supplies, and Listen Mode shows enemies through walls. The enemies take cover and call for help, one who finds a fallen comrade calls out their name, and guard dogs follow your scent. Rags and alcohol make a health kit or a Molotov, and workbenches upgrade the weapons. The maps are wide but linear, with buildings off the main route, and the story takes about 30 hours. The fights are still worth playing for how many ways they leave open: you can sneak through, set human groups and the infected against each other, or shoot your way out.